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backwards compatability Word 2003
I have Word 2003 on my laptop but when I send any document to a computer that
has 2002 and below they cannot read it. I have tried using the save as type field in the save as dialogue box to save the doc as Word 2.x for windows and also word 97-2003 & 6.0/95-rtf and none of these work. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance |
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Any chance you are saving to a floppy or CDR rather than transmitting
electronically? If so, your problem is not with version differences. If so, stop. Save your document to your laptop's hard drive, then use Windows to copy to removable media. On the receiving computer, reverse the process, copying to the hard drive before opening. Word 2003 uses the same file format as Word 97. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Richard" wrote in message ... I have Word 2003 on my laptop but when I send any document to a computer that has 2002 and below they cannot read it. I have tried using the save as type field in the save as dialogue box to save the doc as Word 2.x for windows and also word 97-2003 & 6.0/95-rtf and none of these work. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance |
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Charles,
Thankyou for your prompt reply, unfortunately I am definitely sending the document electronically and not saving to a removable media. thanks again Richard "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Any chance you are saving to a floppy or CDR rather than transmitting electronically? If so, your problem is not with version differences. If so, stop. Save your document to your laptop's hard drive, then use Windows to copy to removable media. On the receiving computer, reverse the process, copying to the hard drive before opening. Word 2003 uses the same file format as Word 97. -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome! --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "Richard" wrote in message ... I have Word 2003 on my laptop but when I send any document to a computer that has 2002 and below they cannot read it. I have tried using the save as type field in the save as dialogue box to save the doc as Word 2.x for windows and also word 97-2003 & 6.0/95-rtf and none of these work. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance |
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Thankyou for your prompt reply, unfortunately I am definitely sending
the document electronically and not saving to a removable media. thanks again Hi Richard, Do you send the files by email? Then probably your mail program is destroying the files. Zip them up... That way, the recipient will at least see when the file has been damaged (since s/he'll get a warning about an invalid checksum on unzipping). Regards, Klaus |
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